Indract

Holy Martyr Indract was an Irish pilgrim slain near Glastonbury in England around the year 710. According to the Glastonbury tradition he was a king's son returning from Rome, after he had stopped to venerate the shrine of Saint Patrick, when a local thegn murdered him together with his companions. Orthodox England adds that his sister, Saint Dominica (Drusa), was among those killed. Their relics were enshrined at Glastonbury. Their veneration seems to date from the late tenth or the eleventh century; the fullest surviving account, the Passio, is of the twelfth century, and one historian has suggested that the figure may reflect a ninth-⁠century abbot of Iona. He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 5 February (new calendar).